Seasons in zones?

[Esk]

This would be kool. Might make the complete disregard for the passage of Years in MMOs a little more obvious, but I'd be okay with that.

Length of Day is just how fast the planet rotates, and years rotation of the planet around the sun.
So they may just live 1000's of their years but it being the same as a human lifespan or more or less...
Anyway, seasons are based on the title of the planet and the speed it orbits the sun.
and if the planet hs a big wobble too then that would effect seasons.
So the planet may not have seasons as we do.

The seasonal events also could be every X game years based on some variation where its DD/MM/?(in game year)?/YYYY (basic example) as thier is no reason to say they have exactly the same system as earth.
So each game year could be say 1/2 of a seasons meaning we get 18 days of it giving us say 8 seasons (4 main and then 4 changeover seasons) so 2.5 cycles of the seasons each real year.
Seasonal events could be based on solar events not seasons so that works better with lore an so on.

And that's enough geek anyway.
Clearly I'm pro this idea lol...

I would love to see it effect mobs, and us create status effects, winter in a desert zone = chill effect, spring/summer in BS = damp status (electrical attacks hurt more) an so on
Spawn seasonal special mobs, effects weather to a point (blizzards).
many many fun (and many many annoying but fun) things could be done.

Edit: Seasonal changed could be something as simple as colour pallet changes and more of X weather type i guess, and i think it would need to effect the city's as much as the rest of the zones.

[Shougun]

To the PS3 comment.

Just like weathers they can turn down the effects on the ps3 - perhaps if they had real time snow build for the PC but its too much for the ps3 so instead the zone gets snowy in stages as you zone in/out, and skips stages at certain threshold times (havent zoned in for an hour+ so skip the stages and jump straight to were its supposed to be for PC players).

PS3/PC dont have to have the exact same visuals so long as the same interactive content is available.

And with memory problem you can change color / add filters without creating a whole new model. And you can also reuse the same model structure even if you did change textures. Its not that bad - you are not recreating the whole entire entity, just perhaps real time modifying or select parts.

[Efrye]

You don't necessarily have to create new content to evoke a season. Just by tinkering with the hue and saturation of the existing textures via post-processing inside the engine (--> no additional files) you can already change the feeling of a map drastically. Of course you can't turn grass into snow, but you can still make it look cold and wintery for example.



I'd definitely welcome it, even if it's only subtle!

[Orophin]

You just HAD to bring grass into this.

I kid, I kid.

[Anakhu]

crap no quote , lol

[Ruisu]

You must have installed a 1TB harddrive to your PS3 or something. Most PCs that have come out in the past four years have given you at least 400GB, assuming it's prebuilt.

[Anakhu]

You must have installed a 1TB harddrive to your PS3 or something. Most PCs that have come out in the past four years have given you at least 400GB, assuming it's prebuilt.

yep, bought it with a 1TB upgrade and some other nice stuffs inside. Old fat boy, all my friends hate me for it too lol. because they either got the old 40gb brick turd that has overheated on them numerous times or the newer slims that cant backwards and has less features. Iv'e played this thing for days straight on several occasions without a single problem, nothing but cool air and a crisp clean hum